Pop-Up Drafting Workshop

Dear Wonderfully Patient, and Exceedingly Intelligent Students:

I’ve been thinking a lot about our class’s final, The Persuasion Project, and while I know I still need to write the actual assignment, I feel like I could use a bit of an exchange towards this end.

You may have intuited that I don’t know every detail about what I want from you at the end of this semester, but that doesn’t mean that I have zero expectations. On the contrary, I want you to practice persuasion in a way that can be both impactful for an audience and also exciting for you. I want you to use some of the tools I’ve introduced in this class to do that in a format that you believe is most relevant for your purpose. For this reason, I’ve designed today’s activity as a pop-up drafting workshop to consider the following:

• your position as a rhetor
• your audience
• your purpose
• what genre would be most effective to make your case

We’ll use this document to draft possibilities today, and to help you think more expansively about your topics, possible genres, and potential audiences. We’ll also take a look at work in the current issue of Jump+ to demonstrate just how expansive I want you to think.

Thanks for going with me on this journey.

Best,

Andrea

PS: Homework

TAKE A PICTURE of your completed drafting document (or if you used the electronic text, a screenshot will work) and post it to your blog by next Wednesday, 10/9.

READ Chapter 6 “Ethical Proofs: Arguments from Character” (146-169).

PPS: There’s not class on Mon 10/7 or Tues 10/8